Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice: Munich - Paris 23 November - 14 December 1974 - Softcover

Werner Herzog

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979612101 ISBN 13: 9780979612107

Publisher: Free Association, New York, 2007

Synopsis

In the winter of 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog made a three week solo journey from Munich to Paris on foot. He believed it was the only way his close friend, film historian Lotte Eisner, would survive a horrible sickness that had overtaken her. During this monumental odyssey through a seemingly endless blizzard, Herzog documented everything he saw and felt with intense sincerity. This diary is dotted with a pastiche of rants about the extreme cold and utter loneliness, notes on Herzog's films and travels, poetic descriptions of the snowy countryside, and personal philosophizing. What is most remarkable is that the reading of the book is in continuity with the experience of watching his films; it's as if, through this walk, we witness the process in which images are born. Although he received a literary award for it, this introspective masterpiece has lingered out of print since 1979. Beautifully designed and emotionally impressive, Of Walking in Ice is the first in a color-coded series of remarkable yet long-forgotten titles being republished by Free Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Association, New York
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0979612101
• ISBN 13: 9780979612107
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112